Finger Pointing!

Road trips can make or break families...

 

There are times when everyone is frustrated with everyone and there are times when everyone is super amiable with each other...

 

It has been 8 days and 8 nights, and we have had our moments. 

 

Obviously, my need to do laundry has been questioned and put up with! It turns out my brother has a phobia of doing laundry in public washers and dryers. He almost transferred the phobia to me, but I am kinda immune at this point in time!  In fact, the receptionist at our hotel in Sackville, New Brunswick, remarked that no guest has shown as much enthusiasm as I did at the mention of their laundry service! 

Apart from laundry, most everything has been questioned. I will not go into details. But I will take a moment to appreciate my mom in this post. I rarely do this in real life. 

 

Right now, my mom is travelling with her 2 kids, 2 kids-in-law and 3 grandkids. We are all kids to her. It probably drives her crazy when ASid buries his face in some hand held device or his phone, and exhibits amazing anti-social behaviour or when RoV needs an iPhone to calm him down! However, she hasn't said as much as she usually does. She is happy to spend this time with her grandkids.

 

The other adults have lost it a few times. Once again, I will not go into details. There are only that many lawsuits I can manage in the future!

 

What I realized is that we can play the blame game and fault someone for every misery we encounter. However if we understand that we are all just different in our own ways, then we can chalk it down to personality differences and move on. Sometimes it is our own that gets in the way. It is totally OK to apologize to others. As my mom likes to remind us...when we point a finger at someone, there are 3 fingers pointing at us! And I give "1 thumb up" to that!